Jean Sprackland

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These Silent Mansions: A Life in GraveyardsPaperback, 30 March 2021

These Silent Mansions: A Life in Graveyards
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Print Length
240 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Vintage
Date Published
30 Mar 2021
ISBN-10
0099587149
ISBN-13
9780099587149

Description

Graveyards are oases: places of escape, of peace and reflection. Each is a garden or nature reserve, but also a site of commemoration, where the past is close enough to touch: a liminal place, at the border of the living world.

Jean Sprackland's prize-winning book, Strands, brought to life the histories of objects found on a beach. These Silent Mansions is also an uncovering of individual stories: vivid, touching and intimately told. Sprackland travels back through her own life, revisiting graveyards in the ordinary towns and cities she has called home, seeking out others who lived, died and are remembered or forgotten there. With her poet's eye, she makes chance discoveries among the stones and inscriptions: a notorious smuggler tucked up in a sleepy churchyard; ancient coins unearthed on a secret burial ground; a slow-worm basking in the sun.

These Silent Mansions is an elegant, exhilarating meditation on the relationship between the living and the dead, the nature of time and loss, and how - in this restless, accelerated world - we can connect the here with the elsewhere, the present with the past.

Product Details

Author:
Jean Sprackland
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
GB
Date Published:
30 March 2021
Dimensions:
19.61 x 12.8 x 2.01 cm
Genre:
Death/Dying
ISBN-10:
0099587149
ISBN-13:
9780099587149
Language:
English
Pages:
240
Publisher:
Weight:
199.58 gm

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